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BPO 4, 202 I, K 06554 (P396629)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BPO 4, 202 I, K 06554 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396629 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Divination |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| 10' | If Jupiter stands behind the moon: there will be hostility in the land. |
| 5' | If Jupiter... to the moon: an eclipse of the king will take place. |
| 16' | If Jupiter stands in front of the moon: there will be a death. |
| 6' | If Jupiter stands at the side of Sîn: a famine will be favourable. |
| 18' | ... river, his lord,... |
| 14' | If Jupiter stands in the left horn of the moon: that king will die. The king will die. |
| 17' | If Jupiter enters the moon: there will be famine in the land of Amurru. |
| 2' | If Jupiter... : the exchange of the land will diminish |
| 9' | If Jupiter stands in front of Sin: the great king will die. |
| 12' | If Jupiter stands in the horn of Sîn: the king of Akkad : the king of Amurru will die. |
| 8' | If Jupiter stands at the left of the Moon: there will be deaths in the land of Amurru. |
| 4' | If Jupiter to the moon... an eclipse of the king of Akkad : he will die. |
| 3' | If Jupiter approaches ama: there will be death. |
| 7' | If Jupiter stands on the left of the moon: there will be deaths in Akkad. |
| 15' | If Jupiter stands in the left horn of the moon: an eclipse of the moon and the sun will take place and the great king will die. |
| 11' | If Jupiter stands in the horn of Sin: the king of Amurru : the king of Akkad will die. |
| 13' | If Jupiter stands in the middle of the horn of the moon: in that year the kings will die. |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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